George Penny Webster

Birth Date

1824-12-24

Death Date

1862-10-08

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Steubenville, Ohio, lawyer, court clerk, and soldier. Butler County, Ohio native. Son of John Webster. Married to Mary E. V. McAdams on January 11, 1848. Father of John M. Webster, Thomas M. Webster, Ella M. Webster, George W. Webster, and Charles B. Webster. Served as deputy clerk of court in Hamilton, Ohio from c1841 to c1843. Served in 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment from 1846 to c1847. Lawyer in Steubenville in 1850 and 1860. Served as clerk of court. Served in the 25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as major. Served in the 98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and colonel from May 1862 to October 8, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Steubenville, p. 65B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Steubenville, Ward 3, p. 75. _ Marriage Records: Ohio Marriages_ (Various Ohio County Courthouses), Film no. 000355779 p. 309. Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers, Volume 1 (Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1868), 1003.

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